The Kalash (Kalasha: کالؕاشؕا, romanized: Kaḷaṣa), or Kalasha, are a small Indo-Aryan indigenous people native to the Chitral region in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They form the smallest ethnoreligious group in Pakistan, practising what scholars consider a form of animism and ancestor worship with elements of Indo-Iranian (Vedic- or Hindu-like) religion, and as such are considered unique among the people of Pakistan.
The Kalash (Kalasha: کالؕاشؕا, romanized: Kaḷaṣa), or Kalasha, are a small Indo-Aryan indigenous people native to the Chitral region in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They form the smallest ethnoreligious group in Pakistan, practising what scholars consider a form of animism and ancestor worship with elements of Indo-Iranian (Vedic- or Hindu-like) religion, and as such are considered unique among the people of Pakistan.
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